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Statuette; known as 'Vierge de Lisieux' (Front)

Statuette; known as 'Vierge de Lisieux' (Front)
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Front

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Detail

Subject
Religious.

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Rouen, Musée Départemental des Antiquités de la Seine-Maritime

Inv. 807

Ivory;metal (later crown)

Height: 275mm
Width: 128mm
Depth: 78mm (base)
Weight: 2332g

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ seated on the Virgin's right knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand; bench.


Koechlin Number: 0091

Koechlin 1924: France, early 14th century; similar to former Spitzer no. 39 which is probably modern [now Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Inv. 3131].


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (clothes; arches on the seat).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
A modern copy of this piece exists at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Inv. 3131).

Provenance
From Jouenne, near Lisieux (Haute-Normandie). André Pottier collection (bought in Normandy). Acquired by the museum through the rouennais art dealer François in 1854.

Bibliography
Abbé Cochet, Catalogue du musée d'Antiquités de Rouen (Rouen, 1868), p. 43.
Abbé Cochet, Catalogue du musée d'Antiquités de Rouen (Rouen, 1875), p. 67.
Exposition universelle de 1878 à Paris: les Beaux-Arts et les arts décoratifs, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1878.
A. Darcel, 'Le Moyen-Age et la Renaissance au Trocadéro', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, II (1878), p. 284.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 87, with reproduction on p. 13.
F. Marcou, 'Les Arts à l'exposition universelle de 1900: les ivoires', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1900), p. 487.
J. Vernier, Musée des Antiquités de la Seine-Inférieure: guide du visiteur (Rouen, 1923), p. 24, pl. VIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 103; II, no. 91; III, pl. XXIX.
Exposition d'Art religieux ancien, exhibition catalogue, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, May-June 1931, no. 108, pl. XLVIII.
Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Palais national des arts (Paris, 1937), no. 1257.
La Vierge dans l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit-Palais, 1950, no. 243, pl. 23.
De Madonna in de Kunst, 1954, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1954, no. 279, pl. XXV.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 61.
W. D. Wixom, Treasures from Medieval France, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967, p. 188.
L'Europe gothique, XIIe-XIVe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1968, no. 359, pl. 106.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 139.
Chefs-d'oeuvre du Gothique en Normandie, sculpture et orfèvrerie du XIII au XVe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Caen, Musée de Normandie, 14 June-2 November 2008 and Toulouse, ensemble conventuel des Jacobins, December 2008-April 2009, no. tbc.
Joconde, catalogue collectif des collections des musées de France: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm


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